High-energy positrons and gamma radiation from decaying constituents of a two-component dark atom model

被引:13
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作者
Belotsky, K. [1 ,2 ]
Khlopov, M. [1 ,2 ,3 ]
Kouvaris, C. [4 ]
Laletin, M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Natl Res Nucl Univ MEPHI, Moscow, Russia
[2] Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys Cosm, Moscow, Russia
[3] APC Lab, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[4] Univ Southern Denmark, Origins CP3, DK-5230 Odense, Denmark
来源
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MODERN PHYSICS D | 2015年 / 24卷 / 13期
基金
新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
Elementary particles; dark matter; cosmic rays; cosmic positrons; asymmetric dark matter; decaying dark matter; walking technicolor; MATTER; PARTICLES; FRACTION; PUZZLES;
D O I
10.1142/S0218271815450042
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We study a two-component dark matter candidate inspired by the minimal walking technicolor (WTC) model. Dark matter consists of a dominant strongly interactive massive particle (SIMP)-like dark atom component made of bound states between primordial helium nuclei and a doubly charged technilepton and a small WIMP-like component made of another dark atom bound state between a doubly charged technibaryon and a technilepton. This scenario is consistent with direct search experimental findings because the dominant SIMP component interacts too strongly to reach the depths of current detectors with sufficient energy to recoil and the WIMP-like component is too small to cause significant amount of events. In this context, a metastable technibaryon that decays to e(+) e(+), mu(+) mu(+) and tau(+) tau(+) can, in principle, explain the observed positron excess by AMS-02 and PAMELA, while being consistent with the photon flux observed by FERMI/LAT. We scan the parameters of the model and we find the best possible fit to the latest experimental data. We find that there is a small range of parameter space that this scenario can be realized under certain conditions regarding the cosmic ray propagation and the final state radiation (FSR). This range of parameters fall inside the region where the current run of large hadron collider (LHC) can probe, and therefore it will soon be possible to either verify or exclude conclusively this model of dark matter.
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